Day 1: Residents evacuate homes in fire's path

Wind suddenly shifts the fire away from the newly purchased home of Dr. Paul Whyte in Newbury Park on Thursday morning.

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Firefighters protect Dr. Paul Whyte's Newbury Park property, who just purchased his home four months ago.

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Clarence Devoe rescues his daughter's dog, Perla from her home after the neighborhood is evacuated and flames reach backyards, including hers, in Newbury Park on Thursday.

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Smoke burns Michael George's eyes as he helps his sister water down a cabana while strong winds push smoke and flames alongside the Newbury Park property on Thursday.

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Ventura County Sheriff's Office personnel go door to door on the 5000 block Via Santana in Newbury Park to get any last residents to evacuate as flames enter backyards of the Dos Vientos area on Thursday.

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Emmerson Lisnek, a freshman at Newbury Park High, watches firefighters hold flames at bay from the Orr residence where she and her family have come to help Monqiue Orr whose Santa Barbara firefighter husband can't get to the home on Thursday morning in Newbury Park.

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A Los Angeles County Fire Dept. helicopter drops water over Via Santana as flames run rampant in all directions with the shifting wind on Thursday morning in Newbury Park.